ditto ditto ditto
muckers... Corp liability settlements as a profit center
thank God none of his predictions came true
Epicly stupid.
Grandparents love to keep up with grandchildren, for one.
Thomas Alva Edison & I hear you loud and clear.
I predict his first WaPo post will be a dupe!
j/k good luck, and don't fuck with Pogue if you know what's good for you!
Amateur programmers couldn't run and test their own code on it.
If nascent code monkeys weren't interested, then you lose the wow factor pretty quickly.
GEnie, Compuserve, Applelink, and AOL had some success because they were 1/2 BBS-like and 1/2 virtual desktop publishing.
One look at Mosaic + HTML, though, and it was painfully obvious that not only could you publish your random crap without AOL, but you could spend an eternity tinkering and extending it.
submit this to boing boing and the agitator. They'd probably love this.
On December 8, 2011, U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg dismissed the last remaining count of the class action lawsuit, stating: "As a legal matter, [..] plaintiffs have failed to allege facts or articulate a theory on which Sony may be held liable." He then removed massive amounts of wax from his ears after the trial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS
Once again, I am in the wrong damn business.
"Dammit, all these charts a tables need to be on a computer!" -- me in 1976 playing D&D.
I would argue that the "immigrants" have a more pressing desire to innovate because they felt the crushing limitations of the non-virtual world first hand.
Please, yes. These infected moroons are tomorrow's clients and damn I need the cash!
from toilet seats of course!
...this webOS browser is like slow burning syphilis. The only, and I mean only, thing that's right here is the $99 price tag.
YMMV for phones, sure. But for a tablet webOS is like a delicious cake made without leavening.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.